Two Worlds of the Swallowtail Butterfly
(Papilio polytes)Dr Abe V Rotor
Caterpillars of Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes)
feeding on citrus leaves
Obnoxious I look and smell no one dares to get near,
much less to pick me neither by beak nor tongue,
for my enemies are few, so my friends - if I know;
you see, if you are ugly and dirty no one bothers you,
like anyone else not excluding some humans;
but in my case Nature designed me this way,
and she thinks I'm beautiful, to me it is a gift of life;
surviving a cruel world. I rest now and someday
I'll metamorphose into something beautiful
in the eyes of humans, so beautiful and dainty
no one will ever ask what I was before. ~
Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes)
free nature of the ineffable human soul, as well
as life, hope, endurance and change.
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